Archived Data Manager

For some business needs and data segments, the need to achieve rapid recovery time objectives will outweigh the cost benefits of tape. But for other business requirements and data segments—specifically for long-term storage and archiving, as we’ve said—intelligently incorporating...

I blogged recently about Why the Google Incident Proves Relevance of Tape Storage. Now I’d like to take it a step further and look at the top five reasons why I think Google uses tape backup for disaster recovery.

As the recent snafu at Google with their gMail product has shown, tape definitely has a place in the modern data center. We'll show why the sentiment that "Tape Sucks!" is untrue and why "Turns Out, Tape Doesn't Suck"...

The death of tape stroage has been talked about for 20 years, yet when a software bug got into Gmail on Feb. 28 and threatened to seriously disable the accounts of tens of thousands of users, Google used tape...

Pessimistic prognostications about the future of tape storage in the enterprise abound, but they don't seem to be deterring new products from coming to market or tape makers from planning for the long haul.